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  • Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big

    by Dana Frank
    The first successful all women sit-in conducted by 'the counter girls' at the Detroit Woolworth's during the Great Depression.

  • The Women Incendiaries

    by Edith Thomas
    The long out-of-print classic about women in the Paris Commune of 1871.

  • Women and Socialism (Revised and Updated Edition)

    by Sharon Smith
    A socialist perspective on women's oppression and liberation, exploring the connection between women's rights and equality for all.

  • "When the Welfare People Come"

    by Don Lash
    Analyzes the history of the U.S. child welfare system and its implications today, offering ideas for reform and building solidarity.

  • Undivided Rights

    by Marlene Gerber Fried, Elena Gutiérrez, et al.
    Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice.

  • Song of the Stubborn One Thousand

    by Peter Shapiro
    An account of the successful strike by mainly Mexican women workers at the largest plant in Watsonville, California.

  • Sexuality and Socialism

    by Sherry Wolf
    An indispensable history and contemporary guide to the struggle for authentic sexual equality and liberation.

  • Rosa Luxemburg

    by Paul Frölich
    The definitive partisan biography of Rosa Luxemburg, as only a contemporary and comrade could know her.

  • Reproductive Rights and Wrongs

    by Betsy Hartmann
    With a new preface, this feminist classic reveals the dangers of contemporary population-control tactics, especially for women in developing countries.

  • My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

    by Aja Monet
    Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism.

  • The Mother of All Questions

    by Rebecca Solnit
    Rebecca Solnit’s timely follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me offers a refreshing take on contemporary feminism.

  • Men Explain Things To Me

    by Rebecca Solnit
    A landmark essay that went viral, inspired the word “mansplaining,” and prompted fierce arguments.

  • Marxism and the Oppression of Women

    by Lise Vogel
    Decades after initial publication, Vogel's book remains an essential contribution to the development of a materialist theory of gender oppression.

  • Marx on Gender and the Family

    by Heather Brown
    Marx has long been accused of not taking women's issues seriously. Heather Brown sets the record straight.

  • How We Get Free

    Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    "If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." —Combahee River Collective Statement

  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

    by Angela Y. Davis
    Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson, Palestine, and prison abolition.

  • The Essential Rosa Luxemburg

    by Rosa Luxemburg
    A new, authoritative introduction to Rosa Luxemburg's most important works.

  • Emma

    by Howard Zinn
    Howard Zinn dramatizes the life of Emma Goldman, the anarchist, feminist, and free-spirited thinker who was exiled from the US.

  • Disposable Domestics

    by Grace Chang
    This classic work sheds light on the lives and struggles of immigrant women domestic workers.

  • Clara Zetkin

    by Clara Zetkin
    Essays and speeches from 1889–1933, long unavailable in the US, on women's equality, labor, peace, and socialism.

  • The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2

    Edited by Mahogany L. Browne, Idrissa Simmonds, et al.
    A BreakBeat Poets anthology to celebrate and canonize the words of Black women across the diaspora.

  • Bananeras

    by Dana Frank
    Women banana workers—bananeras—are waging a powerful revolution by making gender equity central in Latin American labor organizing.

  • Alexandra Kollontai

    by Cathy Porter
    Kollotai was a brilliant and passionate defender of the ideals of the Russian revolution and women's liberation.